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Strengthening Disaster Risk Management in East Asia and the Pacific Session 5

Community-based Disaster Risk Management

June 26, 2009 16:00-19:00 (Japan time)

Communities are at the front line of disasters. Over the last two decades it has become apparent that top-down approaches to disaster risk management alone fail to address the specific local needs of vulnerable communities, often ignoring the local capacities and resources. At times, this approach further increases the vulnerability of the community. In response to the limitations of this top-down methodology, community-based disaster risk management (CBDRM) emerged as an alternative approach in the 1980s and 1990s. Hundreds of CBDRM initiatives have been implemented across countries in the East Asia and Pacific region, forming a rich collection of good practices, experiences and lessons learned to be disseminated for replication and adaptation among other EAP countries.

The World Bank East Asia and Pacific Disaster Risk Management team, in collaboration with the Global Development Learning Network (GDLN), has started a learning and knowledge sharing seminar series on post-disaster recovery planning, risk financing, and disaster risk management from December 2008. Session 5 was held on June 26 2009 with focus on community-based disaster risk management.

　Session Summary :

Summary of Session 5: Community-based Disaster Risk Management

Session 5: Agenda

　・　Overview of community based disaster risk management
　・　CBDRM experience and lessons learned: pilot CBDRM component of the on-going Natural Disaster Risk Mitigation Project in Viet Nam
　・　CBDRM experiences and lessons learned by NGOs: Joint Advocacy Network Initiative on CBDRM funded by DIPECHO
　・　The PROMISE project in the Philippines
　・　Challenges going forward: how to better engage communities in disaster risk management efforts, as well as how to translate national risk reduction initiatives to action at the local level

Session 5 : Speakers

Mr. Nguyen Huy Dung, Representative of Central Committee for Flood and Storm Control (CCFSC), Viet Nam PPT

Mr. Cao Tuan Minh, Project Manager of the Natural Disaster Risk Mitigation Project, Central Project Office (CPO), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Viet Nam PPT

Mr. Duong Van Hung, Project Manager of the Joint Advocacy Network Initiative on CBDRM (JANI), Viet Nam PPT

Ms. Lorna P. Victoria, CBDRM Training and Learning Circle, Philippines PPT

Mrs. Emma Molina, City Agriculture Office Head and Head of the Technical Working Group of the PROMISE Project (Program for Hydrometeorological Disaster Mitigation in Secondary Cities in Asia), Dagupan City, Philippines PPT

Session 5 : Participating Countries

China (Beijing), Lao (Vientiane), Philippines (Manila), Vietnam (Hanoi), Japan (Tokyo)

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This session is part of a larger program. For more information see Strengthening Disaster Risk Management in East Asia and the Pacific